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Global poverty needs plenty of tech talent, GiveDirectly and IDInsight might be good organizations to check out.
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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
TLDR; To help the effective animal advocacy movement cost-effectively absorb greater amounts of funding in the near future, we are seeking expressions of interest from people who could found a new organization focused on:
* Highly neglected animals: insects, wild animals, shrimp, fish, etc, or
* AI and animals: AI alignment and governance for animal welfare, strategic actions considering transformative AI, AI for wild animals, etc.
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This isn't specifically my area of expertise, but in my research for "physical" engineering roles I often find accompanying software engineering roles, such as bioreactors for lab-grown meat, open sustainable technology projects, companies like Zipline working in low-income countries, start-ups that have gone through Y Combinator's non-profit program, and various biosecurity orgs/companies need bioinformatics/data scientists/software engineers. You can find more ideas on the 80k career review of software engineering.